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On Thu, 28 May 2015 09:14:01 -0300, wrote:

>On Thu, 28 May 2015 21:14:10 +1000, Bruce > wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 28 May 2015 07:53:51 -0300, wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 27 May 2015 22:24:26 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
>>>
>>>>On 5/27/2015 7:02 PM, wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I agree but how do *you* define "late model"? I didn't know Australia
>>>>>> had a car brand.
>>>>>
>>>>> Australian Holdens.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>GM is going to stop making Holdens in Australia in2017.
>>>
>>>I am so surprised, never thought they would let that happen but maybe
>>>Holden got too casual ?
>>
>>I don't know what that could possibly mean. It was probably another
>>case of cheaper labour elsewhere.
>
>Meaning that when something is more or less a national symbol they get
>careless and don't feel the need to upgrade it and nurture it
>carefully and then bad things happen.

That was basically it. Both Holden and Ford insisted on building
large, rear wheel drive cars that nobody wanted any more, compounded
by poor build quality and cost cutting measures along the way that
made the cars less reliable than imports.